On Crime :my Disdain For Those Whose Default Position Is ” It’s Unlawful” In Reference To Fixes, Is Palpable…

Laws are made to deal with situations at the time. Jamaica’s laws are largely Colonial era laws which have precious little relevance to today’s problems.

More and more the comments someone made to me sometime ago seem relevant to Jamaica’s crime problem. Quote, “Jamaica needs a dictatorship to truly stamp out crime on the Island”.

Now grant­ed I do not nec­es­sar­i­ly agree with that sen­ti­ment , I do wish how­ev­er there was some way to shut the mouths of some of the chat-a-lots who talk a lot about what they either do not know, or their opin­ions should sim­ply be dis­re­gard­ed and discarded.

Yesterday we car­ried Ian Boyne’s Article which appeared in the Sunday Gleaner. In his Article Boyne pro­posed some strin­gent mea­sures which he feels should be adopt­ed as a solu­tion to crime.
I thought it was wor­thy of dis­cus­sion, but I also under­stand that Boyne is a Journalist, not a legal or secu­ri­ty offi­cial. So there is no sur­prise ele­ments of his com­ments would be legal­ly problematic.
At the same time I har­bor a cer­tain degree of dis­dain for those who sup­port the sta­tus quo on the basis that sug­gest­ed fix­es, regard­less of what is sug­gest­ed is either unwork­able or unlawful.
Laws are made to deal with sit­u­a­tions at the time they are made . Jamaica’s laws are large­ly Colonial era laws which have pre­cious lit­tle rel­e­vance to, or impact on, today’s problems.
The broad­er take­away for me from Boyne’s arti­cle is that things are reach­ing crit­i­cal mass. Andrew Holness , the Prime Minister allud­ed to that in a recent speech. He said he sensed that the peo­ple were tired of the killings and want­ed action on crime.

In response to us fea­tur­ing Boyne’s Article a friend who spent years in the police depart­ment opined that Boyne was always crit­i­cal of the police even when it was unwar­rant­ed. He argued that Boyne’s out­burst is rem­i­nis­cent of the mood before the Military and police were forced to annex Tivoli Gardens to the country.
He was adamant that Jamaicans only have some­thing pos­i­tive to say about police offi­cers when their ass­es are in a vice.
Their ass­es are in a vice now…
To his com­ments I said .….….….….….….….….….….Well I said noth­ing because he was exact­ly correct !

Here’s my advice to the pon­tif­i­cat­ing fools who stand in the way of change. Arguing that sug­gest­ed fix­es are “unlaw­ful” is self-serv­ing and should be seen for what it is.
As I said in a pre­vi­ous arti­cle , “you damn fools do real­ize that sim­ply chang­ing the laws strikes down your argu­ments right”?
We dri­ve cars until they are no longer road wor­thy. We wear clothes until they are worn, torn, or we sim­ply tire of them.
So I sim­ply want to point out to you genius elites [sic] , when the laws are no longer serv­ing the pur­pose for which they were intend­ed we change them, whether you like it or not.

After the Morant Bay rebel­lion the Colonial rulers did not sit on their back­sides and hoped there would be no recurrence.
Take this fact or leave it.
They cre­at­ed the Jamaica Constabulary Force ‚which at it’s gen­e­sis was a night­watch­man type force.
Drastic and out­ra­geous you say?
Call it what­ev­er you want, as long as the Colonial mas­ters had con­trol of the Island there were no more unman­age­able uprisings.

If every man, woman, and child in Jamaica had a job mur­ders would still be out of control.
To you who say you “you can’t prove that”.
My response is “prove that it would­n’t be”!
Lack of a jobs has noth­ing to do with murders.
In fact many Jamaicans have this insane propen­si­ty to com­mit crimes. They will tell you they will not take any job that will not allow them to steal. You have all heard it,( “mi lef di jab kaa nu hus­tling nu de de”).

It is an affront to the integri­ty of decent unem­ployed peo­ple to sug­gest that those who com­mit heinous mur­ders do so because they are unemployed.
So like I said yes­ter­day to the vul­tures who fly down on every sug­ges­tion which has seri­ous puni­tive com­po­nents to the crime problem.
Despite your holi­er than thou opin­ions, it is we the peo­ple who have tried it your way . It is we the peo­ple who lis­tened to your self-right­eous bull­shit that ref­or­ma­tion must be the solu­tion with­out a puni­tive response.
It is we the peo­ple who bleed while you sit in your edi­fices of grandeur and pon­tif­i­cate about some­thing you know noth­ing about.
It is we the peo­ple who lis­tened to your grandiose sug­ges­tions that killing mass mur­der­ers does not stop killings.
When was the last time an exe­cut­ed mur­der­er returned to kill again?
Oh wait, spare me the (duppies,)stories .

Since you peo­ple refuse to yield to com­mon sense solu­tions to the Island’s crime problem.
I call on well think­ing Jamaicans who want to live in peace to take action. People who want to send their chil­dren to school with­out fear they will nev­er return take action. People who want to step out with­out the immi­nent threat of mur­der hang­ing over their heads take action.
Since the Government is scared of the elites in high places, it may be time that the elites are not allowed a voice.
It is your chil­dren who are being raped and mur­dered , not theirs, your moth­ers and sis­ters , your sons and fathers , not theirs.
Look at what the Colombian peo­ple did.
It’s your coun­try not theirs alone.….…

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